Sentence examples for rearing period from inspiring English sources

"Photoperiod" was defined as the difference between the maximum day length observed during the rearing period and average day length during the rearing period.

When they compared the two treatment groups, they found that males of arranged pairs attended their nest significantly less than did males in chosen pairs during the days when the eggs were hatching -- but males of both treatment groups showed comparable nest attendance during the entire offspring rearing period.

Increased knowledge will help us design functional high tech dairy management systems that respect the natural behaviour of cows and calves during the calf rearing period.

Feed restriction creates welfare concerns as conventional skip-a-day feeding can increase activity levels and oral stereotypies during the rearing period.

At the end of the 126-day rearing period, the body weight classes of tilapia recruits ranged from 0.10 to 30.00 g (Fig. 2).

At the end of rearing period (6 weeks), aflatoxin treated groups resulted in significant (P < 0.05) increase in mortality rate as compared to the dietary treatments having either uncontaminated and/or ammonia treated grains.

"During the five- to eight-month chick-rearing period at the colony [chicks] are dependent for water on absorbing whatever is associated with their prey plus that produced from metabolism," he adds.

A total of 45 foraging trips and associated chick feeding events were monitored during the chick-rearing period in 2012.

However, one needs to be careful in interpreting results based on this variable since expenses presented in Appendix (Table 10) were the monthly costs for children aged 3, while intention to give birth may be influenced by all of the potential expenses throughout the child-rearing period.

Overnight trips are sometimes made, especially as the chicks grow older; a 2008 study that used surgically implanted data loggers to track the movement of the birds showed the foraging trips become longer once the chick-rearing period is over.

Short-tailed albatrosses were tracked during the winter, chick-rearing period (∼30 days of age to fledging) and summer post-breeding migrations (Table S2).